Literacy Teaching Resources: KS2 Non fiction Unit – Reports and explanations

KS2 Non fiction Reports and Explanations

(KS2 Non fiction Reports and Explanations - Literacy teaching resource featuring 68 slides)

Key Stage : 2

Literacy Teaching Resources: KS2 Non fiction Unit – Reports and explanations

This unit of work could form part of a class topic in which the children are learning about systems, procedures or processes. They could create an information or reference book in which they include reports and explanations. It is based on the 2006 Year 6 SAT short writing test Endangered Creature and will offer opportunities to explore features of impersonal style such as complex sentences, use of passive voice, hypothetical language (if...then, might, when the...) and technical vocabulary.  Literacy Teaching Resources: KS2 Non fiction Unit – Reports and explanations covers a number of key curriculum areas.  
KS2 Literacy Teaching Resources: Non fiction unit – Reports and explanations is a complete unit of work (including an overview, a 68 slide PowerPoint and 24 accompanying worksheets).  Lessons follow the Phase 1,2 and 3 teaching sequence and cover the related core learning objectives (see preview below).  Activities include:
1.    Personal responses to reading
2.    Sentence warm up activities
3.    Extending vocabulary
4.    Use of the passive voice in impersonal writing
5.    Text structure and planning
6.    Creating a plan using a structure.
7.    Writing in the third person.

Cross curricular links: History and Geography (Galápagos islands, weather); Science (Habitats, Interdependence and adaptation, Life cycles); Art/DT – using fabric collage to create pictures

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